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Celeste D. C. Sodergren; Sarah A. Caroleo; Keri M. Guilbault – Gifted Child Today, 2025
Central office coordinators of advanced academics and gifted education programs--otherwise known as district gifted education coordinators (DGECs)--play an important role in closing excellence gaps, promoting achievement for all learners, and ensuring equity in gifted education programs and advanced courses. Training and preparation programs for…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Coordinators, Training
Sanchez, Irene M. – National College Attainment Network, 2021
Text Steps was a project piloted by Ascendium Education Group in 2015 and expanded to 13 school districts in Wisconsin between 2018 and 2020. Its goal was to combat summer melt through a texting program. Summer melt, in which college-intending high school students are unable to enroll in the fall for any number of reasons, is a well-documented…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Access to Education, High School Students, College Attendance
Nicole Stelle Garnett; Michael Q. McShane – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2023
Over the last two years, seven states have enacted new universal education savings account (ESA) programs or have expanded existing programs to universal or near-universal eligibility. Parental-choice advocates, who have labored for decades to make incremental inroads toward achieving greater educational freedom for families. However, the authors…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Money Management, Barriers, Parent Role
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Jennifer W. Bouek – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
This article theorizes the wait list as an underexamined vehicle of administrative burden. Wait lists are now common within the U.S. social safety net, yet little research has considered their administration. Drawing on a surprising case of Massachusetts' declining wait list for subsidized childcare, I find that administrative burdens were…
Descriptors: Child Care, Program Administration, Access to Education, State Agencies
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2020
The Commonwealth of Virginia provides more than $220 million annually to fund the Commonwealth Award and Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program (VGAP). These two need-based financial aid programs address affordability and access for in-state undergraduates attending public institutions. As higher education costs continue to increase and the…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, State Aid, Access to Education, Student Costs
Region 1 Comprehensive Center, 2023
The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) leveraged the U.S. Department of Education's Rethink K-12 Education Models grant to provide significant funding to districts to support innovative solutions to persistent problems of practice--particularly those heightened by the pandemic. MDOE's grant began in fall 2020. It prioritized innovations focused…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Innovation, Grants, Federal Aid
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Hong, Xiumin; Liu, Qianqian; Zhang, Mingzhu; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Driven by the universal two-child policy, the childcare services in China have stepped into a new era after 3-decade of neglect. This national study investigated the accessibility, quality, and administration of childcare services for children under age 3, by establishing a triangulation of survey, interview, and classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Child Care, Preschool Children
Shabnam Sinha; Sangeeta Dey; Tapaswini Sahu; Sandipan Paul; Tanusree Talukdar – World Bank, 2022
The first six to eight years of a child's life, known as early childhood, have been globally acknowledged to be the most critical years for life-long development of children, when the pace of development is extremely rapid. Early experiences at home, in communities, and at other care settings play a crucial role in brain architecture development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, School Readiness
Brown, Catherine; Mishory, Jen; Granville, Peter – Century Foundation, 2021
The state of Michigan has set a goal to increase the percentage of residents with a postsecondary degree or credential to 60 percent by 2030. Achieving that goal will require a concerted, strategic, and multipronged effort. Today, less than 50 percent of residents have attained a postsecondary degree or credential. While making college more…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Student Financial Aid, Grants, Access to Education
Office of Finance and Operations, US Department of Education, 2024
The purpose of the U.S. Department of Education's (Department's) fiscal year (FY) 2024 "Agency Financial Report" (AFR) is to inform Congress, the President, other external stakeholders, and the American people on how the Department used the federal resources entrusted to it to advance the mission of the Department to promote student…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Public Agencies, Federal Aid, Financial Support
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Augustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Baker, Garrett – RAND Corporation, 2021
In 2011, The Wallace Foundation launched the National Summer Learning Project (NSLP) to expand summer program opportunities for students in urban districts and to study the effectiveness of district-led summer programs and how they could be well implemented. Through the NSLP, The Wallace Foundation has provided support to public school districts…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Urban Schools, School Districts, Program Effectiveness
Adam DeRosa – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While students are the center of dual enrollment programs, high school counseling professionals, often called guidance counselors, and college/university administrators are vital to the success of these programs. High school guidance counselors coordinate schedules and ensure student awareness, registration, and participation in the program.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Dual Enrollment, Educational Environment
Liss, Emmy; Wallack, Josh; Weisenfeld, G. G.; Frede, Ellen – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2023
Over the last several years, a growing number of cities have invested in early care and education for 3- and 4-year-old children, known as "preschool." This paper aims to aid cities in planning preschool programs by outlining a range of factors to consider. We largely do not make recommendations, but rather try to identify a range of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Development, Governance, Program Administration
Jenny F. Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation study investigates the complexities of the relationship between literacy and international development in Indonesia. I focus on the Literacy Boost program from the international non-governmental organization Save the Children, and I explore how the program was differentially implemented and received in two sites:…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Standards, Educational Practices, Program Evaluation
Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2021
Over the last two years the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) staff conducted a thorough program review to determine the current relevance and value of the Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP). This culminated in the report "Student Reciprocity Programs and MSEP in the 21st Century" (ED627191) which utilized historical MHEC…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Tuition, Interstate Programs, Higher Education
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